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I do not write for an audience.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.

I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.

You've got to write for your audience.

There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.